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Wildlife Is on the Losing End of Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels 
No matter how we try to minimize fossil fuel impacts, we can't avoid the fact that these substances are inherently dirty. Oil, gas and coal are at their core, toxic substances. And as a result they are dangerous to humans and wildlife.
The ten species most threatened by fossil fuels were recently highlighted in a new report titled, Fueling Extinction: How Dirty Energy Drives Wildlife to the Brink
#TooWildtoDrill
Climate change is the greatest challenge humanity has encountered. Warming in excess of 2°C will have catastrophic consequences. In order to have a chance of staying below this maximum upper limit of warming 80% of known fossil fuel reserves must not be burnt.
The fossil fuel industry currently holds vast carbon reserves which if burnt would result in emissions 5 times larger than what it is deemed to be safe. All available evidence suggests that fossil fuel companies intend to burn the reserves within their control. In addition, companies such as Shell are actively trying to discover new reserves, often in environmentally sensitive regions.
If it is wrong to damage the world we live in, then it is wrong to profit from that damage. Responsible investors should no longer be profiting from the destructive activities of these companies.
Why is this important?
Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time. In September 2013 announced the IPCC's latest report, which states that it is extremely likely that the observed warming in global temperature last half of the 1900s is a result of human activity and CO2 emissions. An increase in global temperature causes changes in nature and ecosystem which threatens our livelihood and other life on the planet.
Figures from the Carbon Tracker Initiative shows that four-fifths of the world's known resources of fossil energy must be left in the ground if we are to have a real chance of avoiding global warming of two degrees. The latest report from the IPCC shows that if we continue to emit as today, we will have an increase of over four degrees from the current temperature. We will stay within two-degree target, we must therefore reining already now, and emissions must go down by about five percent a year. OECD writes in a new report that we have to cut radically now, and completely stop emissions by 2050.
According to the ethical guidelines for science and technology should research be consistent with human rights, sustainable development and respect for the environment. In addition, the precautionary principle is used when it is "plausible but uncertain knowledge of a technological application or development of a research field can lead to ethically unacceptable consequences for health, social or environmental." Given the numbers and scenarios from the UN, there is reason to question the ethical aspects of continued research on technologies leading to more production and emissions from fossil fuels.

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